The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20
A GLANCE AT THE FASHIONS.

A new shade of red is called "Ruddy-
gore"
''Peach-colored gold" is a new notion in
jewelry.
White and gold is the favorite combina-
ton for summer dresses.
All yellow flowers are in fashion, and the
dandelion holds first rank
Carmelite in gray or fawn color is a IA
yorlte material for travelling wear.
A new idea in Jerseys is low-necked
and short-sleeved one embroidered with
beads.
Spite of the efforts of fashion writers,
dressmakers and milllners. heliotrope is
not popular color. It is trying to
almost every variety Of complexion.
Another fabric very popular at the sea-
s1ue is heavy quality of wrinkled cheese
cloth in delicate evening shades. They
are trimmed with numerous rows of mar
row watered ribbon, and produce good eff
fects IN draplDg.
Point d'espirit is much used for summer
evening gowns, not only in white but the
new colored sorts that come in shades of
green, heliotrope, porcelain blue and old
pink. The narrow watered ribbon is
favorite trimming on these frocks also.
For wearing to the bath gowns easily put
of and on are selected. A pretty one was
of soft, light weight, cream-colored flannel.
simply draped and trimmed with wide
Hercules braid. The bodice was a loose
belted waist OF flannel, with fine blue lines
through it, made with sailor collar, OPEN
ing over shirt of white flannel.
A novel design for cloaks for travelling or
coaching is copied from the cloaks of the
Irish peasant women and envelop the
wearer from head to foot. They are made
OF six or seven breadths of twilled silk
gathered to a velvet standing collar. They
are without sleeves, but the front breadths
are doubled from the foot up and the arms
pass out between the doubled fronts; a rib
bon belt attached to the two back seams
forms them into the waist.
These cloaks are shown in brown, gray
or navy-blue silk, striped with hair lines of
| ecru or red, and are SHRED Into the velvet
collar. Thin silks made waterproof are
made up in this design for rain or dust
cloaks. Other travelling cloaks of gray
| cameps hair or serge are made up with q
much closer shape and are trimmed With
three lows of dull silver galloon. Dark,
cross barred homespuns in shades Of ecru
and brown are made up ss ulster and tray
| cling cap for use in ocean voyagiDg.
The tailors are making coats for use in
| yachting end coaching of soft, loosely
woven woolens with herring bone stripes
| like chuddsh. These have loose fronts
held by band or girdle fastened with a
silver clasp, while the back is adjusted in
| long pleats, beginning at the collar. A
| cape or hood Is worn with these garments;
they ere made up in fawn color with hello
trope silk facing, or in gray blue with dark
navy blue silk. They reach to the heel
and wholly protect the garments under
meath.
Travelling dresses for summer journeys
| by rail or steamer are made of lustToUs
mohalrs, either in shades of French gray or
| gray and white stripes, stripes OF fawn and
| white, blue and white, or solid dark blue.
| Some of these dresses are braided with
picot braid in flower patterns, while others
have only stitching. Some of these mohair
| travelling gowns, made for June brides,
| have been trimmed with the many rows of
morrow MORE ribbon so popular Just now.
| With them are worn little, close bonnets
| of gray straw, trimmed with Russian tulle
| and clusters of red carnations, forget-me-
nots or bluettes,
The English girls are wearing frocks of
white organdy and sheer null, made with
voluminous draperies and all the edges
| hem-stitched. These frocks have big bish-
| ops sleeves which come down full nearly
| to the waist and held there by a band of
ribbon, a full frill falling about the waist
The neck is cut half low, with a wide frill
of lace gathered on the edge and falling
down ward, after the fashion of our moth
ers' "berthasn Around the throat English
| girls wear with these dresses a tight neck
lace of amber or gold beads or imitation
| pearls immediately beneath the chin. This
however, is only becoming to those who
have very round, full Threats that are not
! too long.
That cobwebby Indian silk fabric thai
used to be known years ago as 'pineappls
| game" is re-introduced under the name o.
"sunshiDy," and comes with the edge lined
with five or six rows on the edge more
closely woven than the rest. This is torn
| off in lengthwise stripes and serves, un-
| hemmed, for the founces. A pretty black
dress of this game had a full plain skirt,
| with stripes running leDgthwise about it.
Another full skirt over it was draped lit.
| tie, and in the back was a sash OF the palest
| pink MORE, the ribbon sixteen inches in
width. The waist wss laced up the back,
and pointed both back and front, was half
low in the neck and lined with folds of pale
| pink crepe lisse; the sleeves were unlined
and were filled at the arm-hold, held in at
the elbow with fSe rows of narrow pink
MORE ribbon.